Q&A: I keep fearing my success will be found out

The fear is not that you have no ability. It is the arrogant idea that you have been fooling everyone. Imposter syndrome is, at root, a wish to keep a perfect persona under absolute control.

Luck is a variable that skill knows how to catch. No one builds a long structure on luck alone. Move the energy from defending other people's gaze to the task in front of you. Steady confidence grows in the room you leave for being wrong.